I have reached a stuck process on ESXi 3.5 on my HP Proliant DL140 G1 (Yeah its old.)

So far, it's running via IDE - along with CD Drive - I have the orginal broadcom network adapters which came with the machine.

Now this is where i'm getting stuck, as its IDE I had to do the IDE modifcation in TargetFilter.py file - which works fine, I can install it runs perfectly but I have no network devices detected in esxcfg-nics -l but everything else works fine.

If I then try booting with ACPI=OFF enabled, my network devices are shown in esxcfg but I get "PANIC: Failed to find HD boot partition" when it tries to boot up into manager, even though it had mounted the hard drive before hand and can see contents by logging into unsupported console mode and typing "ls"

Network device is: NetXtreme BCM5704 - but will only show when I've turned off apci.

The network card does have a deviceid - of: 1648 which appears to be in the list.

Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:22 am

Dave.Mishchenko

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Re: ESXi 3.5 - Network, IDE and ACPI

So is it in esxcfg-nics that you're able to see the nics with acpi set to off? Do you also see them with lspci -p (listed both with a vmnic number and a module)?

Ok. I tried to install with acpi=off and then our PS2 keyboard doesn't work. We are able to use a USB keyboard, but then the IDE "hack" doesn't work. It can't find a supported harddrive location either time. If we don't put acpi=off then the IDE hack works, but we don't have NICs in esxcfg-nics -l, we do have both listed still in lspci -p.

I am able to install without acpi turned off, but when I try to force it off after install, for some reason it isn't sticking after I restart after setting it as a kernel option in boot.cfg

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